Twitter Stumbles Into A World That Is “Increasingly Video”
The New York Times this morning (and everyone else) was filled with the news of Twitter CEO and Founder Dick Costolo stepping down. The stock price immediately jumped 7%. Not that any replacement was announced, nor was there...
Read moreVerizon Buys AOL for Online Video
Verizon today announced that it was buying AOL for an astonishing (at least to me) $4.4 billion. According to most sources, they were buying AOL because they want to get into the online video business. I am not sure...
Read moreNow Everyone Is A Journalist
In 1989, I went to work for Jan Stenbeck, the ‘Ted Turner’ of Scandinavia. Stenbeck was building the first commercial TV networks in Sweden, Norway and Denmark – TV3. As with any TV network, we went out to buy...
Read moreThe “Journalists” vs. The Video
Walter Scott murder caught on iPhone Last week, following the MoJoCon in Dublin, there followed a heated discussion about the value of the ‘journalist’, culminating (perhaps) in an article in The Guardian by Roy Greenslade. My argument had...
Read moreVideo Everywhere
Yesterday, a New York City cop made the mistake of cursing out an Uber taxi driver while his passenger recorded the whole thing on video. This was a big mistake, because today he was removed from his job on...
Read moreHow To Start Your Own Video Production Company @Guardian
More than one hundred people showed up at The Guardian in London for our very first HOW TO START YOUR OWN VIDEO PRODUCTION COMPANY seminar. We had never done one of these before, but we had a feeling that...
Read moreGiant Video Walls!
Suddenly, it’s everywhere In 1990, SONY wanted to put a giant video screen they called the Jumbotron at the southern end of Times Square. It was, at the time, cutting edge technology. Measuring 42 feet x 23 feet, it...
Read moreHow To Use FCP as a Scriptwriting Tool
Ken Pattenden, when he is not at his computer My 85-year old English father-in-law is remarkably computer literate. (He is also in remarkably good shape (note photo above), but more about computer literacy. As an avid reader of this...
Read morePicasso and Video
Picasso’s The Dream: It features his mistress Marie-Therese Walter and is estimated to be worth £70m This afternoon we went to see the Picasso exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show admittedly had problems from a lack...
Read moreHow To Find Video Work in this Economy
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/7906381[/vimeo] What they don’t teach you in school… My nephew Adam is looking for a job. But he’s going to job fairs and trying to schnur work off of friends of his parents. Big mistake. But talking to him,...
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